brown study

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  1. study
  2. muse
  3. retrospection
  4. introspection
  5. trance
  6. reverie
  7. reflection
  8. meditation
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  • Those moves were then reversed by the Trump administration but later reinstated by the Biden administration, which also released an accompanying U.S. Forest Service study that said hard-rock mining within the Rainy River Watershed could pose an environmental threat to the BWCAW.
    Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Rabinovich, a distinguished Israeli historian of the modern Middle… The War for Lebanon, 1970-1983 This is partly a history of Lebanon's breakdown and civil war, partly a study of why and how Israel went to war in 1982.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of study
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  • In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse.
    Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Near the brocade sofas, jewelry designer Presley Oldham posed for a commemorative selfie with muse Louisa Jacobson—the cool-girl actor dripping in a halter top of baroque string pearls, diamonds, and moonstones.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
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  • To take some of the pressure off of its constant retrospection, The Bear also nestles itself into a sideways version of reality.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 27 June 2024
  • Yet at its best, the Robertson tribute — produced by Blackbird Presents, which also put on Willie Nelson’s two-night 90th-birthday extravaganza last year at the Hollywood Bowl — had a liveliness that cut through the many-layered retrospection of it all.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of retrospection
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  • Related Articles Feds probe racist ‘cotton-picking’ texts sent to Black Americans Stephens: Do liberals lack the introspection to see what went wrong?
    Josh Becker, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • While the company has been careful to keep looking forward during its turnaround, the investor day produced a fair bit of introspection and several looks back at what went wrong.
    Evan Clark, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of introspection
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  • And her superpower was kind of like emotional - trances and stuff like that.
    Jim Ryan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Tempos are widely noted to have risen precipitously, soaring from 120 or 130 BPM to well into the 140s or above, reflecting clubbers’ growing hunger for styles like hard techno, trance, and drum’n’bass.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of trance
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  • At another Trump barn burner, the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson digressed into a lengthy pornographic reverie about a father spanking his daughter.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
  • But no space seals her nostalgic reverie quite like the primary closet.
    Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of reverie
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  • Eisner balances those personal reflections with one of Zimbardo’s final interviews, a telling one that anchors the final episode.
    Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Brighton is a true reflection of Michigan's political variety, with people divided by their views.
    Arpan Lobo, Nushrat Rahman, Natalie Davies, Lindsay Tague, Alexander Boesch, Sarah Moore, Sophia Jundy, Mikia Lawrence, Alec Mork, Siddhi Choubey and Sonja Krohn, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of reflection
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  • The director illustrates much of this through long, patient takes, often keeping distance with interjections of a slow push in towards Lee’s face, studying him in meditation as the the sounds of the natural world quietly score the scene, as though the two are in communion.
    Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Thorne also recommends therapy, meditation, prayer and exercise.
    Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of meditation
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